Stephen Colbert Tweet Spawns #CancelColbert Campaign: What Did He Say?

The Comedy Central host is in scalding hot water after he Tweeted a joke on Thursday that many find horribly inappropriate and offensive.

The message was a quote from Wednesday night’s broadcast - in a segment about Daniel Snyder responding to plea for a Redskins name change by announcing a foundation to help Native Americans - but it’s easy to see why, taken out of context, it would stir up some major controversy:

The Tweet has since been deleted.

But before critics pounced all over it and started to trend "#CancelColbert throughout the Twitterverse.

"When satire becomes as offensive and hurtful as the thing satirized it is no longer satire. It is simply more injustice, wrote one user," while another added: